Nashville 3D Printing

MidTenMaker.com | Small part 3D printing and scanning.

How does it work? FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) is nothing but a fancy word to describe a process by which a machine deposits a very thin filament of material on top of the same material in order to create a 3D object.

FDM printers print a 3-dimensional object by extruding a stream of heated or melted plastic material such as PLA which is precisely positioned layer upon layer.

PLA or ABS are plastics that become semi-liquid above a specific temperature and rapidly return to a solid state once cooled.